Bank Exposure to Interest Rate Risks During Financial Liberalization: Evidence from South Korea |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Raj?AggarwalEmail author B?Philip?Jeon Xinlei?Zhao |
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Institution: | (1) Kent State University, BSA 434, Kent, OH 44242, 330-672-1219, USA;(2) Family Dollar Stores, Inc., Charlotte, NC 28201, USA;(3) Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, 330-672-1213, USA |
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Abstract: | This study documents the changing impact of long and short term interest rate risks on the equity prices of banks in South Korea during the process of financial liberalization. Consistent with the presence of regulatory constraints, Korean bank equity returns are found to be sensitive to both anticipated and unanticipated changes in interest rates in the first period (1976-81) when banks were largely under government control. However, during our last period (1989-99) of liberalization, Korean bank equity returns were found to have a positive association only with unanticipated short-term interest rates. Consistent with the ability to manage other interest rate risks successfully, in this last liberalization period, Korean bank equity returns had no association with long-term or with anticipated short-term interest rates. In view of the continued interest in banking and financial market liberalization among many Asian, African, and formerly socialist countries including China, these results should be of much banking and policy interest.
JEL Classifications: G21, G28, E44, L89 |
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Keywords: | banking financial liberalizationq interest rate risk Korea |
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